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The deaths of 51-year-old Daniel Briel and his teenage son David, on Saturday are an example of the most common type of accident to occur on farms with grain silos.
Colquitt, Georgia-based Cedar Head LLC is under scrutiny following a tragic incident at their grain silo, which led to the death of a 59-year-old worker in April 2023. According to a release dated ...
TARRANT COUNTY (AP) — Fort Worth police are calling the death of a suburban teenager inside a grain silo a tragic accident. Officer Daniel Segura says 17-year-old Monica Hernandez, of Haltom ...
The death of a 27-year-old Brookings County farmer in February and the entrapment of a man in Hughes County in March have highlighted the dangers of handling grain in bins on farms in South Dakota … ...
As 70-year-old Jay Butterfield sank deeper into quicksand-like grain, his first cries for help went unheard. Deep inside a Butler County silo, with waves of suffocating grain cascading down on him ...
ORANGEBURG, S.C. — In May of 2008, an employee died after falling into a corn silo in Orangeburg. In July 2019, more than 11 years later, a worker was rescued after being trapped for eight hours ...
The death of a worker who suffocated in a Georgia grain silo could have been prevented had their employer not violated safety regulations, federal officials say. That finding results from a U.S ...
Children account for a large proportion of deaths from grain entrapment, partly as farm workers are highly aware of the risks around entering silos. Get in touch with our news team by emailing us ...
ROSS TOWNSHIP, Ohio — When 71-year-old Jay Butterfield climbed into the stiflingly hot grain silo on his family’s farm Thursday afternoon, it was to un-jam a piece of clogged equipment. The ...
PLACEDO – A father of three in his mid-20s died Wednesday morning when he fell into a grain silo and could not be rescued. The accident occurred at about 8 a.m. at Vic-Cal Grain, 135 Main St ...
Those factors from the 2019 harvest, in addition to the use of old, leaky bins on some farms, have combined to reduce the quality of grain being stored and result in a product known as “out-of ...